Our Family's Favorite Old fashioned Sugar Cookies Recipe

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This recipe for Our Family's Favorite Old fashioned Sugar Cookies, by Yvonne Levesque, is from Our Family Cookbook,
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Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Cream butter and sugar, gradually add egg, milk and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix well.Chill if necessary.Roll out and cut into holiday shapes (use 1/3 of the dough at a time)Bake at 400º for 5-8 minutes on ungreased sheet.Cool.

Frosting:Start with 1/2 cup powdered sugar. Add milk 1 tsp at a time until spreadable. Ice each cookie and decorate while wet.

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This recipe is in Barbara Karcher's handwriting and reads "mom's recipe", so I think it may have been her family recipe before it was ours. We added the frosting.

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